Virtual Minds. Congress of Fictitious Figures: Agents, spies, zombies, con-men, fakes, legal entities, novel and dream characters, avatars and bots are crossing borders in a virtual as well as in a real setting. They allow themselves to be understood as those staged, imagined, dreamt of substituted or programmed. The book presents and reflects these strange entities from many points of view and in different procedures from media theory, art, informatics, psychoanalysis.